Saturday, October 29, 2016

The leaders of the culture and “Satyricon” thought the matter was settled – Tomsk Review

Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky and his Deputy Alexander Zhuravsky had a meeting with the management of the theatre “Satyricon”, reported on Saturday, October 29, on the Agency’s website.
“Held a mutually respectful and trusting conversation. We respect the talent and opinion creative leader of the “Satyricon” Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin. Naturally, the theater, whose founder is the Ministry of culture, we are in a difficult situation will not leave,” — said Zhuravskii.
the parties have considered that the incident, which occurred earlier because of the words Raikin about censorship, “exhausted and overcome misunderstanding”. “We agreed to quietly and without attracting media solve the issues arising in working order”, — stated in the message.
“We honestly talked. Clarified their positions to each other. Brought each other apologies for the emotion. Mr Medinsky spok e with Konstantin Arkadievich. All our fears are dispelled. Understanding restored,” said the theatre’s Director Anatoly Palanquin.
“Each of the parties made too emotional and unfair, according to the other hand, judgments that have been reinforced by the media and given unnecessary negative context of simple technical issue”, — stated in the message.
“Colleagues from “Satyricon” are considered unfair in our assessment of the economic situation, we are not prepared to recognize a fair in their assessment of the financial condition of the theater and claims of censorship”, — explained in Department.
Medina confirmed his readiness after approval of the Federal budget in 2017 to promote the theatre.
24 Oct Raikin expressed concern about the frequent attempts of various public organizations to put pressure on the arts and theatre in particular. His words caused a negative reaction of various public figures.